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I feel like this is the kind of information you should've shared at the orientation, Spender. Also, the fact that the cabin is flesh-and-blood coloured and they appear to be inside a ribcage is quite disturbing. Prison Warden posted:It's what you get if you pick Issac and Max together in a team when playing Marvel vs Capcom. BRB kickstarting Paranatural tag-team fighting game. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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The Leper Colon V posted:If I hadn't just changed my avatar, you can bet it'd be Forecast Octopus right now. I've seized this opportunity. Drakyn posted:Welp, Max getting to see his mom just got more difficult. It speaks well for the comic that Max has been able to pretty much only think of how to talk to his mom this entire time without it hurting his character.
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MikeJF posted:BRB kickstarting Paranatural tag-team fighting game. How much do you have to donate to get a Starchman Star?
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You don't. If they could get their hands on Starchman Stars they'd use 'em to make the game, not hand 'em out as Kickstarter rewards.
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Oh. Oh no.quote:Do you think you can take on the challenge of making a train pun that the fandom hasn't made already? We need more puns about that trained train. And training on a trained train. Or, maybe even a trained train losing it's train of thought while spectral children train on it. Yeah. 
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Jan 25, 2014 13:58
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Looks like he got a bit carriaged away.
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http://firstnamezacklastnamemorrison.tumblr.com/post/74493906531/gigidigi-some-doodles-including-draks-clawdia Gigi continues to be the best Paranatural fan.
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Get some dang eggs.
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Speaking of tumblr:quote:itsbenedict asked: So if a spirit could possess the moon, does that mean one could possess the Earth? Is there some power : size ratio for possessing things, or could any old thing hypothetically possess the planet? Obviously it's nothing concrete, but that general rule either has to not work in reverse, or Max's world magnet serpent isn't actually as huge as we've been led to believe. Or it's an exception. Who knows!
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Countblanc posted:Speaking of tumblr:
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Or it could be as simple as "while you need to be pretty swole to possess something really big, being swole as gently caress does not preclude possessing something smaller". Capacity =/= Necessity
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Countblanc posted:Speaking of tumblr:
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Isaac got possessed by a raging thunder god and he's a lame little nerd. Then again, he has a BIG HEART
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Splicer posted:Given the whole "broken god" and "I didn't get the sense of humour" bits, I've been assuming Max's bat only contains a small fragment of a much larger spirit. "I didn't get the sense of humor" is referring to Max's sense of humor.
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Captain Oblivious posted:"I didn't get the sense of humor" is referring to Max's sense of humor.
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Physical size does not imply large power.
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Splicer posted:Do you have word of Zack on that? It's a common theory in the website comments. Website comments are notoriously bad at basic reading comprehension. Scrapdragon is making it doubly apparent that Doorman is no longer talking to Max. No word of the author needed to discern that.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Website comments are notoriously bad at basic reading comprehension. Scrapdragon is making it doubly apparent that Doorman is no longer talking to Max. No word of the author needed to discern that.
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Splicer posted:I guess we'll agree to disagree? I had limited time earlier. Anywho there are more problems with the theory. For one, it makes the assumption that A) It's even possible for a spirit to fragment into multiple consciousness, which to my knowledge we have no evidence that is a thing and B) Assumes that broken means broken into pieces, as opposed to the more straightforward interpretation wherein "broken god" simply refers to being reduced to a parasite dependent on a human child for energy. All things being equal the simplest explanation least reliant on wild conjecture is probably the correct one.
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I sorta assume it's like a strength thing. Someone strong enough to lift a car can still lift a milk jug
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Also, possessing the moon would make it hard to lure a spectral over to leech off of. 
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Physical size does not imply large power. Actually, I think it would. I get the impression that spirits don't have much in the way of a distinction between their essence and form: thus, their forms would directly reflect what they are. The Doorman is a door: his form is a direct expression of his ontological essence. And remember that the bat-spirit from the first chapter shrank as it weakened. And if something is huge? It's probably strong. Splicer posted:Looks like he got a bit carriaged away. Thankfully this didn't start a derail.
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Captain Oblivious posted:All things being equal the simplest explanation least reliant on wild conjecture is probably the correct one.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Actually, I think it would. I get the impression that spirits don't have much in the way of a distinction between their essence and form: thus, their forms would directly reflect what they are. The Doorman is a door: his form is a direct expression of his ontological essence. And remember that the bat-spirit from the first chapter shrank as it weakened. Adding to this, Eightfold was described as weak and she's pretty small as spirits go.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Thankfully this didn't start a derail. Man these train puns are hard to come up with. Back to basic training for me!
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Splicer posted:I don't think you really "get" That's much more accurate.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Actually, I think it would. I get the impression that spirits don't have much in the way of a distinction between their essence and form: thus, their forms would directly reflect what they are. The Doorman is a door: his form is a direct expression of his ontological essence. And remember that the bat-spirit from the first chapter shrank as it weakened. Emphasis mine. I think this is the crux of it. A big, powerful spirit, sufficiently weakened, could probably possess a can opener or something.
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Max: Ness Isabel: Paula Ed: Jeff Isaac: Poo
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But who will be Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, and Duster?
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I'm surprised nobody ever pulled an av from the second-last panel here  http://paranatural.net/chapter-3-page-29/Edit: Along with about half of the panels on half of the pages in this entire comic, maaaaannnnn. The knowledge I've picked up so far has made this reread even funnier somehow
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Level Slide posted:But who will be Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, and Duster? Did you not notice how many people are in Johnny's gang
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http://paranatural.net/chapter-4-page-73/ Spender continues to be the biggest dork.
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That's a good point. Just what IS the purpose of the barrier?
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I just realized that he's already explained why the barrier can't be passed through by just any sufficiently powerful spirit. On the previous page he says "The Ghost Train is an exception. Its power warps anything it wants out of its way, including the barrier". I initially read this as more of a general statement - the Ghost Train is powerful so it can warp the barrier out of its way. But more specifically it means that the train's unique power is warping things so they don't touch it as seen by the trees on the latest page, and Spender's face on this one. Probably obvious but I thought I'd point it out anyway. I'm guessing the barrier is to keep certain dangerous things inside, since those dog things, for instance, are already in there. Though there's no reason why it couldn't also be keeping things out.
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Slime posted:That's a good point. Just what IS the purpose of the barrier? Presumably to keep nasties like Forgedude from crossing the border and
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Regy Rusty posted:I just realized that he's already explained why the barrier can't be passed through by just any sufficiently powerful spirit. On the previous page he says "The Ghost Train is an exception. Its power warps anything it wants out of its way, including the barrier". I initially read this as more of a general statement - the Ghost Train is powerful so it can warp the barrier out of its way. But more specifically it means that the train's unique power is warping things so they don't touch it as seen by the trees on the latest page, and Spender's face on this one. I'm honestly inclined to suspect the barrier exists (at least in part) to keep things in, like Scrapdragons "faction" (which of course begs the question, what are they factionalizing over?) and the implicitly existent factions working against him/it.
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Captain Oblivious posted:I'm honestly inclined to suspect the barrier exists (at least in part) to keep things in, like Scrapdragons "faction" (which of course begs the question, what are they factionalizing over?) and the implicitly existent factions working against him/it. Pretty much everything is pointing towards Something being contained in Mayview, yeah. I would have laid bets on it being Isaac's spirit (explaining why Spender wants to keep him somewhat hidden and out of the loop) if not for Spender mentioning in this very comic that Isaac has been outside Mayview before.
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It's the giant slumbering spirits over which dirt has accumulated to form the twin hills of Mayview.
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